The last month or so has been pretty hectic and I know I haven't posted much about what is going on with Elizabeth--although I have managed to get a few photos up!
Firstly she is doing wonderfully and really starting to communicate with us. You can really start to see her personality develop. She is curious and happy and full of energy like you can't believe.
There are two things going on right now that are taking up a lot of our time and attention. The first was having Elizabeth in a part time child care situation. She started two weeks ago and our plan was to have her there for 3 hours a day. The first three days (after some transition) the director of the program told me she was doing so great and having so much fun that I could let her take her nap there two days in a row--so she was there for 5 hours which I now realize was way too long for her.
After a week in the program she started waking up with night terrors-- both after her nap and also soon after she went to sleep at night. She has never done anything like that before. The screaming was scary. She was also so clingy and generally much more difficult at home. In addition to that, on three separate occasions when I went to pick her up at the center I found her crying at a little table with snot (sorry) running down her nose. My instinct at that moment was "we're out of here". But I did go home to think about it.
What Marty and I have figured out so far is that we can't be certain that the daycare situation put her into a funk, but there is enough doubt in our minds that we eased off and did not send her last week.
I think in the end that having someone at our house would be better for her but I may give it one more try tomorrow and try bringing her in the afternoon (she went mornings originally) and stay with her for the whole time and see if there are problems with the program itself (ie. crying snot filled children) and also if she seems comfortable there. If it is going to cause her difficulty we will not keep her there.
Ultimately I think we should be able to figure out a babysitting situation that works for her and for us and hopefully we will figure it out before she is old enough to drive!
On another front which relates a little to the daycare dilemma, it seems baby Elizabeth has an issue with her eyes. It is a condition called Strabismus, which is a fancy name for "crossed eyes". This should have been detected earlier but aside from kicking her pediatrician that is not much I can do about that. In addition she may have developed a bit of "lazy eye" which causes the vision in her left eye to be poor due to lack of use as she favors her right eye which is not crossed.
Long story short--so far we have taken her to two doctors. One prescribed glasses and exercise and did not mention her vision problem in her left eye and the second doctor said forget the exercises and throw away the glasses--you need to patch her good eye.
Needless to say I was not comforted by their differing opinions nor did I appreciate the second doctor who left her with a bruised eye!
What is a girl to do? There is where my hypochondria and medical doctor obsession kicks into full gear. I found the guy who "literally" wrote the book on strabismus and we have an appointment to see him at the Jules Stein Institute in Los Angeles in early August.
I will fill you in a little more on Elizabeth's eyes and the childcare situation but I have rambled enough for now and I have to run and get Elizabeth ready for her playdate with her little friend Maria who is also adopted from China! I will try to get a few pictures and post them asap!
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